Hella Nation - Evan Wright [55]
The mood among the crowd is festive. It’s as if devotees of a particular fetish or perversion have all found one another and are coming out together at once. Many appear giddy with the excitement of showing off once secret, forbidden Nazi attire for the first time in a public setting. Best of all, no one need feel any shame for who they are. As Pastor Butler taught in a previous sermon, “There is no shame in being white, no shame in being proud, no shame in hating the nigger and the Jew.”
Pastor Butler strides to the platform in a somber, brown business suit, looking fit for his age of seventy-four. A hush spreads among the followers, and they turn their rapt attention to the platform. Butler’s features are stern as he begins his speech. His eyes gaze majestically into the horizon, as if reading invisible letters printed across the blue sky. He lectures about Jewish conspiracies, ZOG (Zionist Occupation Government) control of America, treasons committed by the UN and race war. “This land shall be cleansed,” Butler promises. “There will be a lot of blood running one day. This land shall again become white and Christian.”
Audience members nod assent as Butler explains the Aryan Nations’ view of world history. The white race lost World War II. No peace treaty was ever signed with Germany, and Hitler’s Third Reich still exists—although nobody in the Jew-controlled media will report this.
“Good men are coming forth,” Butler assures his listeners, “solid men, men with iron wills, men who are determined that their race is not going to die.”
Hearty applause greets the conclusion of his speech. Over the next three days, right-wing leaders from across the land will regale the assembled visitors with nearly two dozen speeches. Outsiders from the press are barred from attending, but individual Aryan Nations members are more than happy to share their stories with reporters, and for a $100 fee, Butler will grant a private interview to just about anyone who dares to listen.
PASTOR BUTLER’S OFFICE IS CLUTTERED with conspiracy books, pamphlets and stacks of correspondence from Aryan Nations followers from around the country. There are portraits of Hitler everywhere—a stern-faced Hitler in his military uniform, a businesslike Hitler in a brown civilian suit (much like Butler’s) and a lovable Hitler at play with his dog. The pastor’s own dog, Hans, lies at his feet under the desk, growling every time footsteps approach. Pastor Butler leans back in his desk chair, hands clasped behind his head, and delivers his opinions as if they’re self-evident truths:
“Nazism and Christianity are two sides of the same coin. The SS was a Christian organization.
“Homosexuals are mostly Jewish. The cure, of course, for homosexuals is death.
“The Oriental knows not to mongrelize with other races. You have your exceptions, like that Connie Chung who married a Jew.”
He tells a story about a friend whose son was recently eaten by black cannibals in the Bahamas and talks of black doctors in South Africa routinely performing organ transplants by stealing livers and lungs from living white donors. He elaborates, “They say the screams of the white victims strengthen the organs that the blacks are receiving. Of course, when they eat part of a white man, they believe that they’re getting his strength and knowledge too.”
RICHARD BUTLER WAS BORN in Colorado and studied aerospace engineering in Los Angeles.